Brown says 1964 title ring was stolen from him

The auction for Jim Brown’s 1964 NFL title ring has generated a little buzz. Not all of it would be regarded as positive.

Via Chris Tomasson of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Brown claims that the ring being offered for sale is hot.

“It was stolen from me many years ago, in the late 1960s’’ Brown told Tomasson. “I’m surprised to hear that it’s publicly for sale because whoever got it should know that I didn’t give it up. . . . I’m going to see what I can do about it.”

The listing at Lelands.com contends that the ownership chain has been narrow and clear: “Jim Brown to family member to Lelands to Cleveland Sport Collection auction buyer back to Lelands.com.” The description of the ring also contends that Brown personally inspected the ring and confirmed its authenticity when Lelands.com first offered the ring in 1998.

1) i am a cleveland native in my late 40’s.
2) i looked up donkey in the dictionary and saw a picture of jim brown.
3) i suggest to all the factory of sadness donkeys look up how many NFL titles the browns have won. Let me put it this way….if this year they changed the name of the world series to something else, would the yankees therefore suck?

I call B.S. Yeah sure jim, everyone believes you. “I’ll see what I can do about it”. LMAO. Not the words of someone who had their ring stolen says, sorry, aint buyin it. That’s as bad as saying, “I reeeeeeeeealy like girls”. Packer fans cringe over that one.

As usual with JB there’s drama (the man can do both great and ridiculous stuff) but that said, let’s not (at least those who know) forget that he is by consensus the best player ever. Only Jerry Rice is even close.

Leland’s should know that just because the ring became dislodged during a good backhanding doesn’t make it a transaction of possession. Heck even the hoe was smart enough to hock it rather than claiming it her own!

Ring slipped off at a Belgian resort while Brown was throwing hand grenades down a series air shafts trying to kill as many German Generals as possible in preparation for the Normandy landing. Hope that clears up the issue.

defscottyb says:Jul 8, 2014 11:21 AM

Sounds like Jim is broke and needs some money. All of a sudden it’s stolen now. Lol

handsofsweed says:Jul 8, 2014 11:46 AM

No, lsmith29530, there aren’t any Steeler fans talking about six rings. Why would there be?

However, there IS one Browns fan here who doesn’t understand the difference between 4 titles won in a Junior-Varsity league known as the All-American Football Conference from 1946-49 and actual WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS won by teams that are in the NFL.

Not in the NFL = not playing for a World Title, no matter what.

Don’t discredit the epic Browns World title teams of 1950, 54, 55 and 64 by pretending that winning the AAFC somehow equals a World Title.

I don’t understand the rivalry between Packers and Vikings fans. It is SO one sided. Yet, you all seem to show up and trash the other fan base. Even steelers and ravens aren’t remotely that bad
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It’s mostly just the same people trolling each others threads. Makes everyone look like zealots though.

Going back to the original article…its says Brown acknowledged its authenticity to the auction house in 1998. Also Brown says he believes he might have filed a police report.

Either he did or he didn’t. If he did there should be record. The should also be news some mention of it being stolen sometime in the last 40+ years since it was supposedly stolen. I would be willing to bet he did give it to a family member a long time ago that sold it off. And at 78, a former pro football player from the 60’s might have a little trouble remembering all the details of things back then.